From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 19:52:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC2B316A4DA for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:52:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E97D43D6A for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:52:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA60DA152A for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:52:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.internal ([10.202.2.161]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:52:30 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: nAtRhqWfpL+gVTECxka6SPQ6mtYh94Py3Sp7XyKuPxMk 1157399550 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45AB72F25 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:52:30 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 20:52:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <10609040708.AA17675@pluto.rain.com> <200609040750.30916.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <10609041855.AA19240@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <10609041855.AA19240@pluto.rain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609042052.27204.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: Word processor for 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:52:31 -0000 On Monday 04 September 2006 22:55, Perry Hutchison wrote: > > > Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? > > ... > > > You can go to http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ and download > > openoffice2.0.3 pre-built binaries from there. I would suggest > > that, rather than trying to build it. > > Thanks for the pointer. That is the sort of thing I was hoping for. > > > You're probably going to need java. I suggest getting the pre-built > > binary for diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.00, you can get it here: > > http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml > > The diablo port appeared to build OK as a dependency :) but I should > probably d/l this one also just in case. > > > Try to save yourself as much pain as possible. Building openoffice > > from ports tends to fall in the category of pain. > > So it would seem :( > > I thought the whole point of the Ports Collection was to avoid this > sort of problem. I find it's a reasonably reliable build these days. And once it's installed it doesn't really matter all that much if the occasional build fails, since you still have the previous version installed.